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JimHarrison
Qrew Champion
12 months ago

Custom Data Rules testing for Unique

I am looking for how to write a custom data rule to handle a Unique field. There doesn't seem to be any documentation or I have not found it yet. If you know the syntax for handling a unique field in a custom data rule please let me know.



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Jim Harrison
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  • What do you mean specifically? Are you trying to evaluate uniqueness through a combo of values in a custom data rule - why custom data rules versus the uniqueness setting of a field?



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    Chayce Duncan
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      JimHarrison
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      We are seeing Webhook errors when users import records with non-unique values. I need to alert Users they are attempting to import duplicates on a field that is marked unique in the table. I want to write a custom data rule that throws an error when the User imports a non-unique value.



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      Jim Harrison
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        ChayceDuncan
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        Is the unique field the key of the table or just a entry field? 

        One option if it's not the key field is to use a formula query and count the # of records that have the same value and if it's greater than or equal to 1 then you know it's not unique since it's finding records in the table with the same value. 

        Is there a reason that the native unique field setting to make sure values are unique wouldn't work? You would still get a message that pops up during import that there are duplicate values



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